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Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it had made U.S. actor Steven Seagal its special representative for Russian-U.S. humanitarian ties, a role it said was meant to deepen cultural, art and youth ties between the two countries. President Vladimir Putin presented a Russian passport to U.S. actor Steven Seagal in …

The Arab world is suffering from poor management of resources and the region lacks administrators who can facilitate development in various fields, His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, said in a series of tweets on Saturday. “Life has taught …

The longtime bookkeeper for upstate sex-slave cult Nxivm was ordered Friday to find a new gig while she is out on bail awaiting trial for her role in the group. A lawyer for Kathy Russell, 60, complained that her client only has $2,000 in her bank account and counting beans …

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels was arrested early Thursday at an Ohio strip club for allegedly touching patrons on stage in violation of state law. Daniels, who gained notoriety after suing President Donald Trump following an alleged affair, faces three misdemeanor counts of illegally touching a patron and will be arraigned …

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly brought a CD with the Elton John song “Rocket Man” to give as a gift to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his visit to the country. Pompeo arrived in North Korea on Friday amid talks between the two countries over denuclearizing North …

Paramedics tended to Argentina legend Diego Maradona after he fell ill after cheering on his country as they scored late against Nigeria to stay in the World Cup on Tuesday, according to reports. Maradona, 57, had been visibly emotional during the match in Saint Petersburg that Argentina had to win …

Natalie Portman appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and slammed her former Harvard classmate Jared Kushner. Colbert asked Portman, “You actually graduated in the same class as Jared Kushner, didn’t you?” Portman laughed and replied, “That is correct.” Prying further, the talk show host asked the “Star Wars” …

Adult film star Stormy Daniels sued her former attorney Wednesday, accusing him of acting as a “puppet” for President Trump and his personal attorney, Michael Cohen. The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court accuses Cohen and Keith Davidson of colluding to have Daniels publicly refute her claim that she …

Kids and adults used their feet to voice the desperate need for gun control. Led by the NY-based group Youth Over Guns, students, adults, community leaders, survivors and stars including Susan Sarandon and Julianne Moore marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday to call for an end to gun violence. …

Harvey Weinstein is expected to surrender to authorities Friday to face sex assault charges in connection with attacks on multiple women. The fallen Hollywood honcho is expected to be charged with preying on Lucia Evans, who told investigators that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him in 2004, …

Philip Roth, the prolific, protean, and often blackly comic novelist who was a pre-eminent figure in 20th century literature, died on Tuesday night at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 85. The cause was congestive heart failure, said the writer Judith Thurman, a close friend. Mr. Roth had homes in …

THE LEVANT NEWS EXCLUSIVE – Interview conducted by Emad El-Din Aysha — Dear Sarah Begum, before anything else, could you fill us in on your background please? Where did you grow up and how did this shape your life and career? Did you grow up watching David Attenborough and …

Visa (NYSE:V), the Official Payment Services Partner of FIFA, today announced that professional footballer and face of Visa’s 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ global marketing campaign, Zlatan Ibrahimović, will return to the tournament with Visa and join football fans in Russia this summer. “I have been telling the world that …

By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD* Just got invited to watch a wonderful little movie at the Cairo Cinema Days festival. The invite came from the Palestinian Women’s Union no less, and quite a lot of the organiser at the event were from BDS [Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions]. As you can …

Town & Country uninvited Monica Lewinsky from an event because Bill Clinton was attending and Lewinsky (rightfully) called them out. Getty Images Monica Lewinsky ✔@MonicaLewinsky dear world: please don’t invite me to an event (esp one about social change) and –then after i’ve accepted– uninvite me because bill clinton then …

President Donald Trump personally repaid his lawyer the $130,000 that was used to buy an adult film actor’s silence about an alleged affair, his legal aide Rudy Giuliani has said. It appears to contradict Mr Trump, who said he did not know about the payment made by lawyer Michael Cohen …

It’s a busy week for business. Our week kicked off with a Hyperloop announcement featuing Richard Branson and DP World and will close out with the Future Blockchain Summit, which promises to have truly innovative applications of this new technology. Sandwiched in between these two events, we’ll be watching to …

Natalie Portman, one of the most famous Jewish celebrities on the planet, just announced she was boycotting a major Israeli event. Portman was scheduled to travel to Jerusalem to receive the Genesis Prize, a prominent award sometimes referred to as the “Jewish Nobel.” On Friday, she abruptly canceled her visit, …

A major donor with close ties to the White House resigned on Friday as deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee after the revelation that he had agreed to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model who became pregnant during an affair. The deal was arranged in the …

Twitter is all aflutter about a photo gaffe by the Palestinian Information Center, which posted a picture of Hollywood actress Katherine Heigl on Wednesday with the caption “A French Doctor arrives in the Gaza Strip to offer medical help to the wounded Palestinian protesters.” View image on Twitter Ari Krauss@AriKrauss Good thing it’s not …

Arnold Schwarzenegger is recovering in a Los Angeles hospital after undergoing heart surgery. The 70-year-old former California governor had a scheduled procedure to replace a pulmonic valve on Thursday, according to Schwarzenegger’s spokesman. He was in stable condition on Friday. Schwarzenegger was a bodybuilding star before turning to movies. His …

A porn actress says she had sex with Donald Trump, only a few months after his wife gave birth to a son. A former Playboy model says she had an affair with him, too. And yet according to a Pew Research Center pollconducted March 7-14, both white mainline and evangelical Protestants continue to approve of …

A British journalist who struck his wife with a hammer and killed her following a heated argument was sentenced to 10 years in jail on Sunday morning. The 61-year-old British journalist, a former Gulf News staff member, had earlier pleaded not guilty to the charge of premeditated murder before the …

Former Playboy model Karen McDougal gave her first television interview about the affair she alleges she had with Donald Trump more than a decade ago, saying that he offered her money after their first sexual encounter. “After we had been intimate, he tried to pay me, and I actually did …

The president’s personal attorney Michael Cohen interceded in 2011 to prevent porn star Stormy Daniels from airing her story about an alleged affair with Donald Trump, telling the agent who arranged for its publication that he could harm her career, according to a person involved in the discussions. Randy Spears, …

The lawyer representing the porn star Stormy Daniels says six additional women have come forward alleging sexual relationships with President Donald Trump — including some he says who also claim to have nondisclosure agreements. “We’ve been approached by six separate women who have claimed to have similar stories to that …

The lawyer representing Stormy Daniels says that, on the heels of her lawsuit against Donald Trump, several other women are now exploring the possibility of legal action against the President. Attorney Michael Avenatti confirmed that several women recently came to him seeking to potentially build legal cases against Trump. He …

Adult film star Stormy Daniels sued Donald Trump on Tuesday, alleging that he never signed the nondisclosure agreement that his lawyer had arranged with her. The civil suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by NBC News, alleges that her agreement not to disclose her “intimate” relationship with Trumpis invalid because …

An escort who is at the center of a major political scandal in Russia is calling on the United States for help in exchange for information on the election scandal around President Donald Trump’s campaign team. Belarusian-born Nastya Rybka, a self-described sex expert—whose real name is Anastasia Vashukevich—rose to fame virtually overnight earlier this …

Late-night comedians had reason to celebrate on Tuesday after the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, lost his top-secret security clearance as part of a West Wing overhaul. Interested in Trump Administration? Add Trump Administration as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Trump Administration news, video, …

Hollywood star George Clooney and his human rights lawyer wife Amal on Tuesday pledged $500,000 to help fund a student march on Washington, giving a huge boost to what is considered an unprecedented youth mobilization against gun violence. The “March for Our Lives” is scheduled to take place on March …

A former Playmate, who says she has been emboldened by the #MeToo movement and declining health, has confirmed to The New Yorker that she authored an eight-page, hand-written document about her alleged affair with Donald Trump that the magazine said was quietly buried by the National Enquirer after buying exclusive rights …

When Goldie Hawn was 11, she was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up. She replied: “I want to be happy.” At 72, the actress continues to advocate happiness among children, through The Hawn Foundation. The actress is in Dubai for the ongoing World Government Summit. She …

On a celebrity gossip show here, the hosts recently projected the Instagram profiles of Turkish actors and pop stars on the screen and berated those who had not yet posted support for Turkey’s military offensive in Syria. “There are those celebrities who even post when they go to the bathroom,” …

Melania Trump is not in Davos. She was planning to go — her office had already announced that she would be there to “support the president” as he hobnobs with the global elites at the World Economic Forum. But the first lady is staying in Washington for what her office …

Ursula K. Le Guin, a prolific novelist best known for the Earthsea series and The Left Hand of Darkness, died Monday at the age of 88. Across more than 20 novels and scores of short stories, Le Guin crafted fantastic worlds to grapple with profoundly difficult questions here on Earth, from class …

Two reports this week offered more details about what they described as a sexual relationship between Donald J. Trump and Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic-film actress who was reportedly paid $130,000 in hush money shortly before the 2016 election. In Touch magazine published excerpts on Wednesday from its 2011 interview with …

Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan says that she is designing her own island in Dubai. During her appearance on The Wendy Williams Show on January 12, the Mean Girls actress revealed her plans to design one of the islands within The World Islands, an artificial archipelago of small islands off the coast of her adopted …

An adult-film star was paid $130,000 by a lawyer for Donald Trump in the weeks before the 2016 election to not talk publicly about a sexual relationship with the then-Republican candidate, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The lawyer, Michael Cohen, allegedly paid Stephanie Clifford to remain …

President Trump on Wednesday castigated his former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon as a self-aggrandizing political charlatan who has “lost his mind,” marking an abrupt and furious rupture with the onetime confidant that could have lasting political impact on the November midterms and beyond. The White House’s sharp public break …

The curly haired Palestinian teenager is seen walking up to two Israeli soldiers standing near the entrance of her house, and she can be heard telling them to leave. She then pushes and kicks both soldiers who casually fend off the blows. Then she slaps one soldier hard in the …

There are still more revelations about Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual misconductand the ways the powerful producer covered his tracks. On Tuesday night, The New York Times published a scathing new report with fresh details on the ways Weinstein took advantage of assistants, manipulated colleagues and worked in cahoots with gossip writers. His assistants supplied him …

India’s Supreme Court turned down yet another petition seeking a stay on the release of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s historical epic Padmavati, as violent protests raged and a growing list of states across India vowed to block the film even if it was cleared by the censor board. …